Festival Reports
2011Nostalgia, Chaos, and Moments of Ecstasy: The 36th Toronto International Film Festival
Festival Business The opening weekend of the 2011 Toronto International Film Festival also signalled the beginning of TIFF’s second year in the $200 million dollar
A Tribute to Éric Rohmer: The 26th Belfort International Film Festival
The 26th Entrevues festival in the charming town of Belfort in eastern France was a bustle of activity on many levels. As usual, it paid
Telling Real-Life Stories: the 9th DocLisboa International Documentary Film Festival
Over the course of nine years, DocLisboa has grown in stature into one of the key European shop windows of modern non-fiction film. Lisbon’s documentary
Neither Subordinate to the Other: the 10th I Mille Occhi festival
“Representation is a denial of participation” – Muammar Gaddafi in The Green Book Used to the soothing distraction film festivals offer in the form of
Conflicting Landscapes: The 30th Vancouver International Film Festival
The Dragons and Tigers Award for Young Cinema went to the first digital film of a young Tibetan director, Sonthar Gyal’s Dbus Lam Gyi Nyi
I’ll Be Your Mirror: Nan Goldin’s Film Curation at CPH:DOX
A lot of people seem to think that art or photography is about the way things look, or the surface of things. That’s not what
A Moviegoer’s Lament, or a Report on Recine, Rio de Janeiro’s International Festival of Archival Cinema
Recine, the International Festival of Archival Cinema, is the stuff a cinephile’s dreams are made of. Its slate bulges with beloved classics, premiering restorations, and
A Prisoner of the Palace: The 49th New York Film Festival Remains Comfortably Installed
If this were the 50th edition of the New York Film Festival – and the year in which programming director Richard Peña hands over the
A Twilight Portrait: A Report on the 21st Film Festival Cottbus, Festival of East European Cinema
The Film Festival Cottbus: 21 this year! One might then pause to consider, with the festival attaining maturity (if we were to arbitrarily decide that
A Year of Triumph and Tragedy: Iranian Cinema and the First Iranian Film Festival Australia (IFFA)
The inaugural Iranian Film Festival Australia kicked off in Brisbane on 4 August 2011 in spectacular fashion with a sell-out screening of Asghar Farhadi’s acclaimed
